Clothes-hanger support.



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CHARLES FRANKEL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

' CLOTH ES-HANGER SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 29, 1907.

Application filed March 23, 1906. Serial No. 307,729.

To' all whom, t may cancel/'7er i Be it known that I, CHARLES FRANKEL, a 1 citizen of the United States, residing at New j York, county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Hanger. Supports, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a sliding support for clothes-hangers, such as may be used in Y. trunks, wardrobes, &c.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, readily operable, and inexpensive means of support for clothes-hangers. It is to be placed in the tops of trunks, displaycases. and in closets, &c., where it is desirable to economize in space and still provide a strong device.

The device consists, briefly, of the parts shown and described in the accompanying drawings and specification.

In its preferred form a guide member adapted to be supported beneath a shelf or in the end of a trunk has two depending flanges inwardly turned to form tracks with a space between them. Asheet-metal carriage member of similar form, but smaller in size, has two depending flanges and a roller, which are supported by the flanges of the guide. A plurality of eyemembers are secured to this carriage and project downward through the slot in the guide. A rod is supported from these eye members, on which a coat or other clothes-hanger is adapted to be hung. The front end of the carriage preferably has a handle, so that it may be conveniently pulled out, while the rear end has an upturned portion, which is adapted to form a stop against outward retraction.

Figure l is a vertical section of a trunk with a device of my invention installed. Fig. 2 is an end view and partial section of the device. 3 is a fragmentary view of the rear end of the device installed.

1 indicates the body of the trunk.

2 indicates the top of the trunk to which the device is attached. This may also be considered as representing Aa shelf, as in a wardrobe or closet.

3 is a guide member, preferably formed of sheet metal and having inwardly-turned flanges 4 4.

5 and 6 are two supporting-blocks adapted to hold the front and rear ends of the guide, respectively, in position.

kflanges 4 4.

.little space.

7 1s a carriage, preferably formed of sheet j metal, and having two bearing edges 8 8,

supported by theflanges 4 4 of the guide. This carriage 7 may, lar in outline instead shown.

9 9 9 are eye members secured to the carof semirectangular, as

if desired, be rectanguriage 7 by means of nuts, as l0. These eye j members may be of any form but the one shown is preferred.

11 is a rod supported by the eye members.

l2 is a roller at the rear end of the carriage, which normally engages the edges of the Itis also adapted to prevent the carriage from tilting when it is pulled out to any extent, since it then presses on the top of the guide, and it also acts as a stop against the inward retraction of the carriage by abutting against the support 6.

13- is a pin connecting the sides of the guide member near the front and strengthening the same and also acting as a stop in conjunction with the shoulder l2 to prevent the carriage being pulled out too far.

14 is a downwardly-turned portion at the front of the carriage forming ahandle.

l5 l5 indicate coat or clothes hanger adapted to be removably supportedon the rod ll. Any number of these hangers may be employed.

The construction is light in weight and yet operable with sufficient ease for all ordinary purposes.

The device is compact and takes up but The advantage of this is that there is little likelihood of objects being caught upon projecting portions. The device is also constructed so that it may be easily installed and easily cleaned or removed. The carriage and roller coact with the guide, so as to cause as little friction as possible when the` carriage is being pulled out and pushed in. Ball-bearings or wheels or rollers may be employed the grooves of the flanges 4 4 when desired. These are advantageous where the device is of considerable length or is designed to carry great Weight and particularly reduce the friction wh en the rod is pulled out.

What I claim isy l. An adjustable supporting device for clothes-hangers comprising a guide having inwardly-turned bottom flanges with a space between. the same, a carriage formed of sheet In etal and having inwardly-turned side flanges supported on said guide-flanges, members projecting downward from said carriage IOO through the slot in the guide, and a rod supl ported by said members.

2. tionary guide having inwardly-turned bottom flanges with a slot between the same, a carriage having inwardly-turned side llanges mounted to slide Within said guide, and supported on said bottom flanges, a plurality of independent members connected to said earriage and projecting said slot, and a rod supported by said members.

3. ln a support for clothes-hangers, a stationary guide having inwardly-turned bottom ilanges, with a slot between the same, a

carriage having inwardly-turned side flanges mounted to slide within said guide and supl ported on said bottom flanges, a plurality of In a support-for clothes-hangers, a staindependent members connected to said earriage, and projecting downwardly through said slot, a rod supported by said members, and stops Jfor limiting the outward pull of said carriage. Y

4. A support for clothes-hangers and the like, comprising a guide having a slot in the bottom and inturned flanges, a carriage member having inwardly-turned side flanges downwardly through l adapted to slide on said bottom flanges, a

l roller mounted on the inner end of said carriage member for operation upon both of the flanges of said guide, and a rod supported from said carriage member.

CHARLES FRANKEL. Witnesses:

Louis STRASSBURGER, HYMAN H. HERMAN. 

